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The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
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When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar -
The body has to be invaded by the intelligence; each part has to become intelligent.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar -
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.
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We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.
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We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die....So just standing still isn't really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar -
The commercialism may wash off sometime later.
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When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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People say that steadiness of mind is an end; no, it is a beginning. I am there; I can explain everything up to that point. Then I struggle to discover what comes after, so this steadiness is not an end, it is the beginning and the instrument.
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You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar -
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar -
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
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The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Your body is the child of your soul.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar -
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar